Hello,

I have really been wanting to make excellent venison chili (beans or no beans is welcome). I need some ideas or recipes. I would imagine venison chili would be the same as regular beef chili? I like the idea of bacon in there, nothing too spicy, although I love spicy no one in my immediate circle does. I don’t like beer, the one time I had beer chili, it was gross and tasted like budlight. Please hit me with what you like the best. Thank you kindly.

I am no chef or cook.  But I like beans in my regular chili, but venison chili, that's a hard no on the beans.  Venison chili is more like a beef tips (unless you are going for ground venison) which are totally different things.  Which you trying to do?

I won’t be using ground venison. I have a bunch of chunks from the shoulder(?) not sure which part of the deer it’s from honestly.

Just finished prepping a batch to bring to a cookout tomorrow. I use my Instant Pot for a slow cooker. Usually slow cook on the high setting for the first couple hours then medium for the rest because I tend to prep it the day before and keep it in the refrigerator.

1-3/4 lb venison stew meat
2 medium yellow onion, chopped
1 green pepper and 1/2 red pepper, chopped
2 tablespoons minced garlic
1 15 oz can Bush Mild Chili Red Beans, drained, medium is ok too
1 15 oz can Bush Mild Chili Black Beans, drained, medium is ok too
1 28 oz can Hunt's diced tomatoes, drained
2 tablespoon ground cumin
1/2 tablespoon garlic powder
2 tablespoons chili powder
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
2-1/2 tablespoons Tabasco Sauce

Brown meat well. Saute onions and minced garlic, then peppers in juices from the meat over medium/high heat add olive oil as necessary. Place remaining ingredients in Instant Pot and stir well, slow cook at least 5 hours.

ETA: It's good with ground venison too but I prefer stew meat. Sometimes I grab a pack of stew meat and use ground venison to make up what I need to get to the 1-3/4lb. I tried it with ground bison once and it was awful. Using a complete red pepper instead of just half makes it not as good. One of these days I'll try it with more venison and no beans but this recipe works well.